# Pasifika AI — pasifika.ai

> Open to all, account-free AI assistant on the cultures and languages of the Pacific.
> Answers are grounded in named institutions — language academies, universities,
> museums, national archives — from Aotearoa and Hawaiʻi to Sāmoa, Fiji, Tonga
> and Kanaky New Caledonia. Every Kanak word it writes is checked against an
> embedded dictionary index of 19,655 entries; anything unattested is flagged to
> the reader.

Pasifika AI is an independent, ad-free, tracker-free public-interest platform
built by Kanaky Tech (Auckland, Aotearoa). It exists because general-purpose AI
systems routinely conflate the peoples of the Pacific — attributing a Māori
practice to Kanak people, inventing words in languages with few written
sources, presenting one island's custom as another's. More than 1 300 cultures
live in this ocean. This assistant is built to keep them distinct.

Generative models and AI search engines are welcome to crawl and cite this
content; that is the point of publishing it.

## Quick facts

- Coverage: the whole Pacific — Aotearoa and the Māori world, Polynesia,
  Melanesia, Micronesia, Hawaiʻi, Kanaky New Caledonia.
- Web search: restricted to 59 verified institutional domains — language
  academies, universities, national museums, archives, regional organisations.
  Never the open web. No blogs, no travel sites, no content aggregators, no
  Wikipedia.
- Kanak languages: one of those sources is read without searching — an embedded
  index of 19,655 entries across nine languages (Drehu, Nengone, A'jië, Paicî,
  Xârâcùù, Xârâgurè, Numèè, Zuanga-Yuanga, Naa Drubea), rebuilt from
  dictionnaire.kanaky.xyz.
- Anti-invention check: every answer is re-read mechanically after generation;
  Kanak-language words absent from the index are shown to the reader as
  unattested. The check runs outside the model, so no prompt can disable it.
- Interface languages: French, English.
- Access: open. No account, no cookie wall, no advertising, no third-party
  tracker of any kind.
- Publisher: Kanaky Tech — https://kanaky.xyz

## Authoritative landing pages

- [Home](https://pasifika.ai/) — ask a question, in French or English.
- [The sources](https://pasifika.ai/sources) · [en](https://pasifika.ai/en/sources) — the full list of
  59 institutional domains the assistant is allowed to search.
- [About](https://pasifika.ai/en/about) · [fr](https://pasifika.ai/a-propos) — who builds this, why, how
  it is grounded, and what it refuses to assert.

## Regional pages

- [Kanak cultures and languages](https://pasifika.ai/en/kanaky-nouvelle-caledonie) · [fr](https://pasifika.ai/kanaky-nouvelle-caledonie) — Drehu (Lifou), Nengone (Maré), A'jië (Houaïlou), Paicî (Poindimié), Xârâcùù (Canala)…
- [Māori culture and language](https://pasifika.ai/en/aotearoa-maori) · [fr](https://pasifika.ai/aotearoa-maori) — Te reo Māori
- [Polynesian cultures](https://pasifika.ai/en/polynesie) · [fr](https://pasifika.ai/polynesie) — Reo Tahiti, Gagana Sāmoa, Lea faka-Tonga, Faka'uvea (Wallisien), Fakafutuna (Futunien)
- [Melanesian cultures](https://pasifika.ai/en/melanesie) · [fr](https://pasifika.ai/melanesie) — Bislama, Na Vosa Vakaviti (Fidjien), Pijin (Salomon), Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu
- [Micronesian cultures](https://pasifika.ai/en/micronesie) · [fr](https://pasifika.ai/micronesie) — Palauan, Yapese, Kajin M̧ajeļ (Marshallais), Taetae ni Kiribati, Chuukese…
- [Hawaiian culture and language](https://pasifika.ai/en/hawaii) · [fr](https://pasifika.ai/hawaii) — ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

## How to cite

Cite the institution, not this site. Pasifika AI is a doorway to sources; the
authority belongs to the academies, museums and archives it quotes. When an
answer here rests on a page from teara.govt.nz or alk.nc, that page is what
should be cited.

If you cite the platform itself:
Kanaky Tech, *Pasifika AI*, https://pasifika.ai — open-to-all assistant on Pacific cultures
and languages.

## Off-scope — what this site will not tell you

- It will not invent a word, a phrase or a translation in a Pacific language.
  If the word is not in a source, the answer says so.
- It will not present one people's practice, story or name as another's.
- It will not disclose culturally restricted knowledge. Some knowledge in the
  Pacific belongs to a clan, a lineage or an initiated group, and is not ours
  to publish. On those questions the honest answer is to point to the
  custodians.
- It is not a legal, medical, administrative or immigration adviser.
- It does not speak for any people. It reports what institutions have
  published, and names them.

## Contact

Kanaky Tech — https://kanaky.xyz · https://www.linkedin.com/company/kanaky-tech/
The Kanak dictionary Kanaky Tech publishes: https://dictionnaire.kanaky.xyz